Forward Business, LLC. VMC Contracting *** Email Scam *** Phoenix, Arizona

JOB OFFER Our company is deslighted to propose you the capacity of Secret Shopper in Forward Bsiness LLC after coming across on your autobiography at CareerBuilder online. Our staff office did its best to scrutinize your CV and remained to be pleased. We trust that your experience will be among our most valuable assets. Necessary Criteria for being employed: Age: older than 27 Internet access 3-5 hours of free time every day for discharging your professional capacities Clean record Job Benefits: As it goes, Secret Shopper is an superb way for employees to earn income in the process of providing feedback, making comments, making of, commenting out to firm. This is a real opportunity for you to get to the top of the career rejoicing at things you like above all. For instance, one may eat in eating house or acquire things in supermarkets reveling in life and promoting entity at the same time. Remuneration: Your every month salary may come to $1,500-2,000. Time Limitation of the Position: On account of the great amount of candidates for this capacity, this vacancy is time-bound. So, it is strongly recommended for you to provide us the necessary information about yourself ASAP. To become the employee of our company: Please go to our site: Forward Business LLC Register yoursel Download, read take a close look at accurately a contract and underwrite it in a mandatory way. In signing this application, you confirm that your job will be on at-will basis and abandon any complaints against Forward Bsiness LLC and its team.

The email asked that I go online and apply for work as a secret shopper. The website looked legit and I filled out all areas except Bank information which should not be asked on a job site. I completed the contract and emailed it to the address provided which was a hotmail account which struck me as odd. Today, 10-18-2010, I received an envelope from Forward Business, LLC and inside the envelope were two checks. One for 9.84 and another for 2860.00. Both checks were from VMC Contracting, INC and were drafted on Bank of America checks. 

This deemed odd as I had not worked for or heard of VMC and the checks looked a bit strange. I contacted VMC but no one answered. I tried to look up Forward Business but no number was listed. Only pages of scams.

I then contacted BofA to see if the checks were real, just as an investigation stand point (I had no intention on cashing them as I feared they would possibly bounce and my bank information would be sent to VMC or Forward Business). After speaking with BofA as suspected, the confirmed neither the check or the checking account number for VMC were valid. 

VMC is located (allegedly) in VA and Forward Business is located (allegedly) in AZ. 

These companies may be out to scam the unemployed or those looking for work as the unsolicited emails came with Careerbuilder.com as a source of where they obtained my information. 

Please be careful when dealing with either company. I filed a police report  and ask that if you are contacted by either of these companies and feel you may be at risk, file a report with www.IC3.gov and never give out your personal information via email or internet. 

I'm an educated individual and feel saddened that I fell for this scam. I did not give my SSN or DOB but feel awful that I got in this far. 

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